30.10.15 / Cerro Tololo, Chile

One more post, one more image from the mining-town of Andacollo, before I leave here tomorrow. Although this region around Cerro Tololo averages 320 clear nights a year (and just as many sunny days), the weather can change in a heartbeat up here. A miner’s reality therefore staggers between the merciless sun and nasty, quick-passing storms – there is one moving across some miner’s sheds in today’s image. Tomorrow my journey will take me further into Valle Elqui, where astronomers and stargazers from all over the world gather for the incredible night sky.